I found a database for congressional travel & junkets..enjoy

[SoCalDem]

http://www.publicintegrity.org/powertrips/search.aspx?act=results&data=01000000D08C9DDF0115D1118C7A00C04FC297EB0100000067492734C2270C469B8E1B2B895FA77C0400000002000000000003660000A80000001000000012DF93538F950CD8282BAAC9932973C80000000004800000A000000010000000158A7E62C7FE03C723AEA880330A85E7600000004745ECB46D0A449FF04F953F8402EBF2B16D5121533830025C52FDAD1A65CF3AB394CBFCE93277BABC5F593B71145A11B8325ADFBDA25023FA71D098F3B486A10360671861606BB3A7A9968DA7031C2803D5B752C81D58364645CEA8DBA1F0AE140000007FEF24082461E2038EA1CE17A825D2C6BB255068

[Maddy McCall]

1. Good Morning.

Did you see this??

Offices Taking More Than $350,000 in Travel
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio)
Rep. W.J. Tauzin (R-La.)*
Rep. William Thomas (R-Calif.)
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

Offices Taking More Than 200 Trips
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Larry Combest (R-Texas)*
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio)
Rep. W.J. Tauzin (R-La.)*
Rep. William Thomas (R-Calif.)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

* No longer in Congress

[Dinger]

2. Thanks SoCalDem! K & R!

Bookmarked, saved, sent on to address bookl etc., etc.:)

[and-justice-for-all]

3. I pay for that shit!! We pay for that shit!!!

Those Fuckers!

[RB TexLa]

15. How do you pay for that

It's a listing of reimbursements and lists who is paying for it.

[SoCalDem]

16. We are paying their salaries, to start with

and when they are on junkets funded by "special interests", you can bet your ass that there's some legislation coming down the pike that will cost us even more money.

[RB TexLa]

17. Much of it is them doing their jobs

[SoCalDem]

18. Sure.. I'll buy that bridge.. what's it called? Brooklyn?

:)

[RB TexLa]

19. OK, I guess you could have disagreed without the smarting off

but ok. Have a nice day

[wakeme2008]

4. I was surprised by the places Foley did not go

but that list could be missing some trips if they were private or with friends like Rush.

edited silly me forgot to Nom :)

[SoCalDem]

8. I have a feeling that there were some trips he was willing to pay for

if you get my drift.. Trips that he would not want showing up on his "tab"...

[wakeme2008]

9. Or let Boy Lover Rush pay for Rush's plane trip to say DR. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

5. I'd like to see one on Bush's expenses to the taxpayers, during

his funraising and campaigning trips on AF 1.

[annabanana]

6. This is a fascinating database!

(pouring a second cuppa coffee and digging in)

[Sherman A1]

7. Good stuff - Thanks!

[roguevalley]

10. self delete.

there's another one ... open something or other.org that is good but I can't quite remember the link right.

[nuxvomica]

11. opensecrets.org

I actually went to opensource.org on your recommendation. :rofl:

[chill_wind]

12. That's the one. Both should be in everyone's bookmarks.

Money in politics. Who gives. Who gets.
http://www.opensecrets.org/

Opensecrets is a massive wealth of eye-opening information on both parties.

[SoCalDem]

14. I like that site too.. It's fun to cross reference

he donation amounts vs the ambassadorships..

[UTUSN]

13. I was shocked that one of my faves WEXLER was the lone Dem in top 10

travelers, but his trip was to a Zeus-awful place, clearly for true research.

Thanks for the great site!!!1

[Lasher]

20. Wow, thanks!!

Holy cow, no wonder so much legislation favors corporations and rich people. And no wonder members of Congress are are not at work in Washington, DC any more than they are.

These expense reports are some of the sloppiest paperwork I have ever seen. Some of the expenses are definitely lowballed.

[tenshi816]

21. Well, that was fun...

Try putting Tom DeLay's name in the search engine - ten pages of trips. My, he had him some fun, didn't ol' Tom? I particularly liked the ones for "informational" purposes, for example his "informational" trip to Egypt costing just a hair under $10,000.

Edited to add: Isn't it funny that one of Foley's trips to a conference in Vail just happened to take place during ski season? I'm sure he wouldn't have taken advantage of the timing just to get a free ski trip, now would he? Nah, that must just be me being cynical. I'm sure he spent all his time at the conference, yeah, that's it.

[SoCalDem]

22. and they seem to have a lot of "party" get-togethers

for "strategy" meetings.. :eyes: